Improvement in combined lounge and bedstead



JOHN C. HALL. Lounge ahd Bed.

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JOHN o. HALL, OE OHTOINEATI, OHIO.

IMROVEMENT IN COMBINED LOUNGE AND BEDSTEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,270, dated October 24, 1871.

To all wle-nm it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. HALL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, hio, have invented anew and useful Convertible Lounge und Bedstead, of which the following is aspecification:

The present invention is an improvement on the convertible lounge und bed patented to me the 21st dey of February, 1871; and my seid invention consists in the provision of hinged side' boards, which, When the piece of furniture is designed for use :is abed, may be mede to assume a vertical position, so as to confine the bedding as etliciently ns in the Ordinary fixed bedsteed; und which side-boards, when not thus required, become instrumental, in conjunction with e. suit-- able strap and buckle, or their equivalent, to hold the hed-clothes snugly to the rear side ofthe back, when the latter is to assume its vertical position, as for the lounge.

Figure l is e. perspective rear view of my iinproveinent in the form of e. lounge. Fig. 2 is u perspective view of the saine converted to a bed.

Hinged to the side rails ofthe back G, one to euch rail, are side-boards K K', capable of heilig folded inward upon seid buck., us in Fig. 1, or ot standing erect, :is in Fig. 2, the said boards being so hinged to the rfi-ils as to open no further then the vertical position. A strep, L, and buckle M serve to hold the said boards to their folded position when the article is to be used es a. lonn ge, and also serve to hold the bed-clothes in place. In their vertical position the side-boards a-iord an elfeotuel casing, within which the bed-clothes may be tucked as ei'ectuelly as in a. common permanent bedsteztd. Buttons N N', pivoted to the rear side of the beck and entering mortises O O' in the head and foot-boards of the frame, serve to hold the back securely to its horizontal position. I do not, however, propose to conne myself to such buttons, but muy use lugs, snep-bolts, or other suite-ble fastening. Drawers P, sliding under the frame, may serve as receptacles for eX- tra bed-clothes, chamber utensils, Sec. The sideboztrds may consist of open frame-Work, if preferred. Small casters S, applied to the lower edge ofthe heck, may serve to support the seme in its vertical position.

I claim as new und of my inventionrllhe provision in u lounge-bed stead of the folding-boards K K', strap L, and buckle M, or their 

